From 2013, “Parsing Things Out,” a bricolage of salvage Steel and wood. This work comes from deconstructing my own work to make new work. Salvage from salvage. It is asymmetrically shaped, measuring about 20 by 14 by 3 inches deep. It has reverse beveled sides which are also covered with salvage steel. Not sure where this fella lives now. It was placed into a private collection and later went to auction where it was reacquired by someone else. Strange how work has its own life, ultimately moving through the world independently.
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92% agreed that Liuba was a great artist (Daily Poll). A pioneer from the first generation of fully abstract artists. From 1916, she jumped with Malevich into Suprematism▶1-2, colour and geometric forms on a white background.
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She soon went her own way into non-objective art (without reference to the worldly objects and nature). Then from 1921, ended easel painting crossing over into everyday Soviet life◼️
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B◼️PAINTERLY SHIFTS

A mixture of transformational and continuous 1% changes in everything she did▪️
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▶3🔹Painterly Architectonic🔹1916 -🔹See the 'violin' remnant shown in her 1915 painting▪️
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▶4🔹Painterly Architectonics series 🔹 See her development from 1917 flat two- dimensional (top-right), to the 1918 left quadrilateral's shift into graduated colour with dynamic penetrated planes▪️
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▶5🔹Space-Force Construction 🔹1921🔹Note the texture with added metal dust and the use of line on bared ◼️
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C◼️ PRODUCTIVIST

In revolutionary times, Liubov ended easel painting in 1921. She then became a Productivist in times of hardship and the reintroduction of the market economy. She sought to make everyday life better◾
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GRAPHIC DESIGNER🔹1922🔹▶ 6▪️
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THEATRE-DESIGNER▶7🔹Magnaminous Cuckold▪️1922▪️
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TEXTILE-WORKER▶8🔹Her fabric designs into production in 1923-1924. Affordable for all and contributing to rebuilding the working-class base of the revolution▪️
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FASHION-DESIGNS🔹1923-4 ▶9🔹Her Soviet 'Flapper Dress'. Modest. 'Compromise Constructivism' in the contested mixed economy▪️
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PROFESSOR 🔹A Master of the Colour workshop at VKHUTEMAS in Moscow from 1920. Sergei Eisenstein attended her theatrical design workshops at Meyerhold's Theatre. Check the latest podcast from Radio Flomm, episode: Cine for my short introduction to Eisenstein's film, Battleship Potemkin ➡️10🔹Rodchenko🔹1925◼️
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D◼️ WOMAN PIONEER

A leader In the life. When the Soviet Union led the world in equality, before Stalin's counter-revolution. Many women painters, like #fridakahlo, became world famous following the rise of social movements from the 60s. Popova rose again ◼️...

In 2005 I began an experiment with shape combinations. To differentiate them each was a different color or value. The whole object made stood away from the wall but the face was parallel to it. In this particular evolution the elements had rounded forms. Elements of this work has informed my work for a few years and it is once again.
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Medium Large, 2015
Salvage Steel, Marine-grade Plywood, Silicone, Vulcanized Rubber, Hardware
12 by 10 by 4 inches
Private Collection

I should create a series for these suprematist composition series. This is my very first image posted on Instagram. It was an idea that was never finished until now. Acrylic and screen print on raw plywood. 24x30 inches #suprematism. Shape and composition. #suprematismart #suprematistcomposition #constructivism...

All my paintings are made with acrylic paint or gouache acrylics. Sometimes I use extra tools to add depth or highlight details. I like using these classical media since it brings me closer to the artists I admire. And most of them are in the past, making them ‘classical’ heroes... And I like the challenge of making neat colour blocks in a graphic way, using ‘old’ tools....

One of my submissions for the annual coaster show Salut 5 nucleusportland. Show opens June 12th and will run until July 3rd. All pieces could be viewed and purchased online through their site.
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In the fall of 2002 I began an investigation into painting without paint. I had figured out how to paint metaphorically without actually being involved in the painting process. This discovery was based on using pre-painted materials. They are real to themselves and need no simulation for effect. The pre-painted surface also allowed me a way to appropriate paint conceptually as my “own paint.” I reject the brush, but not painting itself. Metaphorically these pre-painted surfaces also allow me to reference art history, one of my abiding loves.

Here are some examples of an aspect of this investigation. These pieces were created over about a year, from the early fall of 2015 through the early summer of 2016. In this work I wanted to formalize the 'figure-ground' relationship of the objects and how they related to the wall. Here the framed elements function as a stand-in for the wall, which itself is a sort of container that holds paintings or other types of work. The shaped elements inside the framed format are in the foreground to the framed structure itself which makes the background.

Currently in the studio I am returning to some of the ideas I was considering at this time. However these new "framed structures" will now also address the architecture of the space they inhabit as well. My ongoing concern is hybridizing the issues between painting and sculpture. Images of this new work will be posted in several months as the work becomes complete. After all, its is important to complete work and not finish it.

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a close artist friend and she talked about how challenging it is for her to get out of a painting. I thought that was interesting as I find it significantly more challenging to know where to begin work. If I set up the conditions properly, there is an automatic stopping point and therefore the work knows when it is done and I don't have to.
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